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News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Hereafter chewing-gum will be banished from the ship-stores of the navy.

— Last year there were made in Switzerland 4,462,071 nickel and metal watches, 3,135,991 silver watches, and 1,010,905 gold watches.

— The Italian government authorized an extraordinary expenditure of $65,000,000 to cover the cost of the war with Turkey until the end of November.

— Forty nations are to be represented in the next Olympic games, which will be held in Sweden. Even China has begun to produce athletes, and some of these will compete in the games.

— Yale University is to become the possessor of the famous Shakespeare quartos and folios of the Huth collection, recently sold in London. These volumes were purchased at an estimated cost of $200,000.

— Chicago, it is announced, is to have a huge building for conventions, shows, and sports. It will seat 35,000 persons, will cover a space of 325 by 600 feet, and will be large enough for indoor baseball and football games.

— Within thirty months nearly two hundred persons have been convicted of cheating the government out of customs revenue in the port of New York. Only a few have received jail sentences, but the offenders have been obliged to pay fines and forfeitures amounting to $8,000,000.

— An American by-product of the Chinese revolution, is the stranding of Chinese students who are in this country, supported by the Boxer indemnity which we gave back to China. Their remittances from home have ceased, for China has need of all her money at home just now.

— In no previous year has so much cotton been ginned up to November 14 as during the present season, the census bureau's report yesterday showing a total of 11,269,986 bales, which is almost a million and a half bales more than were ginned to that date in the record year of 1904.

— Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the explorer, filed suit December 1 to recover $100,000 damages from the New York Times on the ground that his reputation has been injured, and public distrust has been engendered through the publication by the Times of a story that he was egged when he tried to lecture in Copenhagen on October 24 last.

— The Chinese in New York City have had a great parade in honor of the republican movement in their native land. The Bowery is accustomed to many strange sights; but the spectacle of its strange citizens with queues clipped off, riding in automobiles, and tramping in parade, carrying their new flag, was enough to stir it from end to end. The parade was led by the Young Chinese Association of America, to celebrate the victories of their countrymen in rebellion.

— After more than nine years of investigation by the government, the first criminal prosecution of individual meat packers under the Sherman Anti-Trust act, has begun before Judge George A. Carpenter, in the United States district court at Chicago.

— The Supreme Court of the United States has just rendered an interesting decision regarding the right of moving-picture promoters to use pictures based on the scenes described in copyrighted books. The right is denied them, and the decision is considered a hard blow for the moving-picture business.

— Great Britain is to be the only nation absolutely independent of cable communication with any part of the globe. This result will be attained, say the London papers, by a chain of world-encircling wireless stations, for which negotiations have just been concluded between the British postmaster-general and the Marconi company.

— The fresh agitation for a decrease in the German naval program, which calls for a reduction in 1912 of the number of big ships laid down annually from four to two, has met with official silence. An agency which is sometimes well informed in naval matters, however, states that an increase has been decided on. The government, it says, is determined to spend $90,000,000, spread over six years, on the augmentation of the fleet. It is not yet decided whether the increased appropriations are to be covered by new taxation or by a loan.

— The time for the French election is drawing near. It will take place in 1912, so that the two great republics of France and America will elect chief magistrates the same year. France elects for seven years; America, for four. An exchange notes the following contrasts: France rarely gives its president a second term, while the United States gives him a second chance, almost always. France's president's principal occupation is to sign documents, and go to the chief races on Sunday. The American President influences legislation, and if he went to a horse-race on Sunday, he probably would be impeached. The French president never takes the stump except to inaugurate a statue or open a chrysanthemum show. France pays $300,000 a year to its president; the United States, only $75,000.

— A movement has been started in Washington, D. C., by friends of the Indian tribes, their descendants, and those whose interests by intermarriage lie with the Indians, for the formation of the “Brotherhood of North American Indians.” The movement is being directed by a full-blooded Indian of education, a professional man resident in Washington, who does not care to disclose his identity at this time. Discussing the proposed brotherhood of his people, he said recently: “It is our purpose to amalgamate the remnant of our race into a compact organization along the lines of self-protection with a view of commanding and demanding justice at the hands of the national, or federal government; to bring about a unity of our people in the exercise of the franchise as voters, and fight for our rights at the ballot-box where our numbers can demand a hearing.”

— A 500-mile canal, projected to drain the great swamps of Florida, would reclaim 6,500,000 acres of land.

— Twenty-five million dollars is a conservative estimate of the sum to be expended by the various nations for aeroplane equipment in the next three years, said Jerome Fanciulli, an aeroplane expert of New York, at the New Willard. The appropriations already announced by the various governments for aviation purposes next year amount to nearly $5,000,000.

— A tailor whose firm has been continuously in business in Philadelphia for 105 years, has compiled from his books of measurements some interesting statistics. These statistics show that the American in the past century has grown taller, stronger, and slimmer—greater in height and in chest girth, less in the girth of waist and hips. The average chest of 1795 was 36 inches. It is 38 inches now. The average height was 5 feet 7 inches. It is now 5 feet 8½ inches. The length of leg has increased in the same proportion. The shoulders and chest have greatly developed. The waist, on the other hand, has lost 2 inches.

— “King - Emperor” George and “Queen-Empress” Mary, as they are officially styled since their arrival in their great eastern empire, landed December 2 from the steamer “Medina” at the quay at the Apollo Bunder, Bombay, India. They were met by the governor of Bombay and a large gathering of high officials of the civil and military service. A royal procession was formed. It was a mile in length, and comprised representatives of all branches of the European and native armies in India. It subsequently traversed all parts of the decorated city. Enormous crowds everywhere heartily acclaimed their majesties.

— The law for the care of the children of poor mothers in Illinois before Nov. 18, 1911, was that when mothers found it impossible to support their children, they were turned over to the juvenile court, and that court placed them in other homes, the county paying $10 a month each for their maintenance. The new law provides that, instead of breaking up the family, the mother herself receive the pension for the maintenance of her own children. On the first day when the new law went into effect, forty mothers, chiefly widows, applied for the pension, and each received a sum according to the number of children she had.

— In every State of the Union there will pass out of existence on January 1 a historic court practically as old as the State itself. On that day 76 United States circuit courts will cease to do business at the 76 different places they have been accustomed to meet. Arrangements for this change are now being perfected in Washington and throughout the circuits. The elimination of the circuit courts was one of the reforms provided for in the new judiciary code, enacted by Congress on March 3, 1911, to become effective Jan. 1, 1912. The code provided that after the latter date there should be only the district courts, the nine circuit courts of appeal, and the Supreme Court. The existence of the circuit courts since 1891, when the circuit courts of appeal were created, has been regarded as expensive and superfluous.

The Magazine Work for 1912

By E. R. P.

OUR record of magazine sales for the year 1911 is nearly completed. In many respects this has been a year of prosperity and blessing, although the gain in the circulation of our magazines is not so great as we had hoped for. However, there is no reason for discouragement.

As shown in the comparative summary, the circulation during the first eleven months of 1911 has passed the whole circulation of 1910 by nearly 65,000 copies. When we add the December record, the gain over the previous two years will be quite substantial and encouraging. However, we are far from satisfied with the present status.

This is an age of magazines. Many of the popular magazines in the United States have a circulation above a half-million copies a month. Several have passed the million mark, and the Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies' Home Journal are stretching away in the race toward two million copies a month. Our magazines are the best in the world. They carry the everlasting gospel in its final setting for this world. We believe that God has given us this method of circulating our literature as a means for reaching thousands and millions of people who are difficult to reach. Especially is this work with the magazines solving the proposition of reaching the masses in the great cities of this country.

The greatest difficulty we have met, thus far in launching this work, has been to organize it into a strong movement under the direction of competent leaders. We have already published the plans laid by the General Conference Committee at the recent autumn council for strengthening this work, and these plans have been explained by correspondence. The way is prepared for all to unite in an effort to place the sale of magazines upon the same sound, organized basis as our subscription-book work. This can be done promptly and thoroughly if all who carry responsibility will unite heartily in the effort. The following is a brief restatement of—

Plans and Suggestions

1. Beginning with Jan. 1, 1912, all our colporteur work will be managed as one work, whether the colporteurs sell subscription books, forty-per-cent books, helps, or periodicals.

2. The magazine work will be under the direction of the field agents of the local conferences and the general agents of the union conferences.

3. In large conferences where the work is too heavy for one field agent, it will doubtless be desirable for an assistant field agent to be appointed. Or if a field missionary secretary is already in charge of the magazine work, it may be thought best by some conferences to continue that arrangement.

4. The field agents will select the colporteurs, train them, and assign territory for magazines, the same as they do for subscription books.

5. The publishers of our ten-cent magazines will furnish to field agents a full list of the names and addresses of those who are selling magazines in their respective territories, including their records for the past few months.

6. The field agents will send out blanks for individual reports each week. A full report will be required from each colporteur for magazines the same as for books. Blanks for reporting are being changed so as to include the magazine work.

7. Beginning with the new year, all the colporteur work will be published in one summary in the REVIEW, the books and magazines appearing in separate columns, so that they may be computed separately the same as in the past.

8. In arranging for institutes during the winter and spring, we should plan to secure the attendance of as many colporteurs for magazines as possible. These workers have had little training and few advantages. We should endeavor to develop a strong force under definite leadership as rapidly as possible.

9. In organizing bands of colporteurs in our denominational schools, general agents and field agents should not overlook the students who should sell magazines, but make proper provision for their instruction, and work in the field.

10. Let us grasp the advantages of this forward movement, and develop its possibilities speedily into a blessed reality.

E. R. P.

Comparative Summary

Summary of Magazine Sales for November, 1911

	TOTALS 1910	TOTALS 1911	VALUE 1911
Atlantic Union Conference
Maine	750	975	$ 97.50
Massachusetts	2511	1231	123.10
N. New England	460	353	35.30
S. New England	902	640	64.00
Gr. New York	3437	1285	128.50
New York	1529	2300	230.00
W. New York	770	855	85.50
Totals	10359	7639	763.90
Canadian Union Conference
Maritime	...	25	2.50
Ontario	1041	385	38.50
Quebec	...	...	...
Newfoundland	85	510	51.00
Totals	1126	920	92.00
Western Canadian Union Conference
Alberta	146	156	15.60
British Columbia	846	278	27.80
Manitoba	226	300	30.00
Saskatchewan	34	220	22.00
Totals	1252	954	95.40
Central Union Conference
Colorado	531	435	43.50
W. Colorado	82	10	1.00
East Kansas	476	775	77.50
West Kansas	775	482	48.20
North Missouri	1055	385	38.50
South Missouri	800	...	...
St. Louis Mis.	280	80	8.00
Nebraska	380	1570	157.00
Wyoming	81	321	32.10
Totals	4460	4058	405.80
Columbia Union Conference
Chesapeake	2336	400	40.00
District of Col.	870	247	24.70
New Jersey	2170	1450	145.00
E. Pennsylvania	582	717	71.70
W. Pennsylvania	1016	920	92.00
Ohio	1258	1053	105.30

	TOTALS 1910	TOTALS 1911	VALUE 1911
Virginia	1670	350	$ 35.00
West Virginia	76	35	3.50
Totals	9978	5172	517.20
Lake Union Conference
Indiana	714	1280	128.00
East Michigan	1411	2551	255.10
West Michigan	462	878	87.80
North Michigan	330	50	5.00
N. Illinois	3196	2960	296.00
S. Illinois	454	1132	113.20
Wisconsin	2161	2830	283.00
Totals	8728	11681	1168.10
Northern Union Conference
Iowa	3075	5793	579.30
Minnesota	2006	1046	104.60
North Dakota	1500	935	93.50
South Dakota	551	525	52.50
Totals	7132	8299	829.90
North Pacific Union Conference
Montana	464	12	1.20
Southern Idaho	205	594	59.40
Upper Columbia	676	370	37.00
E. Oregon Mis.	...	10	1.00
Southern Oregon	273	180	18.00
Western Oregon	1528	2340	234.00
W. Washington	914	827	82.70
Totals	4060	4333	433.30
Pacific Union Conference
Arizona	...	5	.50
California	3060	3060	306.00
Central Cal.	3446	1326	132.60
N. Cal.-Nev.	...	235	23.50
S. California	3936	2095	209.50
Utah	126	100	10.00
Totals	7508	6821	682.10
Southern Union Conference
Alabama	280	1210	121.00
Kentucky	1031	585	58.50
Louisiana	385	273	27.30
Mississippi	706	415	41.50
Tennessee River	155	1067	106.70
Totals	2557	3550	355.00
Southeastern Union Conference
Cumberland	270	400	40.00
Florida	125	1295	129.50
Georgia	1875	1135	113.50
North Carolina	441	70	7.00
South Carolina	975	290	29.00
Totals	3686	3190	319.00
Southwestern Union Conference
Arkansas	348	685	68.50
New Mexico	86	570	57.00
Oklahoma	1325	485	48.50
Texas	1652	1191	119.10
South Texas	...	115	11.50
West Texas	50	75	7.50
Totals	3461	3121	312.10
Foreign & Misc.	16166	16499	1649.90
Mailing lists	22321	33881	3388.10
Grand totals	102795	110118	$10111.80

Comparative Summary

	TOTALS 1909	TOTALS 1910	TOTALS 1911
January	71094	89462	122202
February	91812	116198	99234
March	134206	132165	244003
April	120582	183981	192757
May	115145	174886	141204
June	163545	193727	145025
July	168689	222146	197582
September	102033	120020	135179
October	108571	116157	164537
November	106860	102795	110326
December	90737	99137	...
Totals	1447510	1703187	1767822

The Publishing Work

By E. R. PALMER; N. Z. TOWN

Conducted by the Publishing Department of the General Conference

E. R. PALMER Secretary

N. Z. TOWN Assistant Secretary

Obituaries

By N. W. KAUBLE; C. A. HANSEN; A. W. JENSON

SNIPES.—Mollie Snipes, wife of Alonzo Snipes, died Nov. 29, 1911, aged 33 years, 6 months, and 24 days. About two years ago she joined the Seventh-day Adventist church at Palisades, Colo. Her husband and five children mourn their loss, but are sustained by the bright hope of meeting their loved one at the resurrection of the just. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from 1 Cor. 15:26. N. W. KAUBLE.

EVANS.—Died at Ada, Mich., in her seventy-fourth year, Lucinda Hawkins Evans. Sister Evans was born in Iowa, but came to Michigan early in life, where she found present truth. For twenty years she was a faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Her suffering was severe, yet she was patient to the last, and fell asleep with the bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. Services were conducted by the writer, who spoke from Mal. 3:15-18. C. A. HANSEN.

GAGE.—R. A. Gage was born in Peoria, Hill Co., Tex., May 30, 1875, and died at his father's home, Nov. 23, 1911. He was reared in a Seventh-day Adventist home, but not until a few months before his death did he fully accept the truth and begin to keep the Sabbath. He was a dutiful son and a loving brother. His father, three brothers, and three sisters are left to mourn the loss of their dear one. We laid him to rest in the hope of meeting him on the resurrection morning. A. W. JENSON.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By C. F. McVagh; L. A. Smith

Annual Meeting, Southern Publishing Association

NOTICE is hereby given that the fourth annual meeting of the constituency of the Southern Publishing Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on Thursday, Jan. 18, 1912, at 10 A. M., at the Seventh-day Adventist church, on Twenty-third Ave. N., and Seifried St., Nashville, Tenn., for the purpose of electing a board of directors for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

C. F. McVAGH, President; L. A. SMITH, Secretary.

Business Notices

THIS department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.

Conditions

Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. The fact that one is a subscriber does not necessarily make him “known” to the managers, nor constitute sufficient recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.

We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.

A charge of two dollars will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.

No discount for several insertions.

SPECIAL until January first: 100 Bible Mottoes delivered, $3.65; 300, $10. 50 cards free with a $10 order. Highest Grade Cooking Oil (delivered): 5 gallons, $4; 30 gallons, $23. Address Hampton Art Company, Nevada, Iowa.

FOR SALE.—A well-improved relinquishment of 320 acres; 60 acres in cultivation. Near the mountains in eastern Colorado, in a good farming and dairying district; healthful climate. Price $2,500. Write for particulars. Jake Osborne, Limon, Colo.

COOKING OIL direct from refinery; pure, healthful, delicious. Bbl. (50 gallons), at 58 cents; 30 gallons, at 50 cents; five-gallon can, $3.25; ten gallons, $6.25; 8 one-gallon cans, $5.90. Cash with order. Lookout Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

FOR SALE.—Eight-room residence in Post-office block, College View, near college, church, and street-car line; good well, cistern, and cellar; good barn, hen-house; ten fruit-trees. Price, $2,000; terms, $1,950 cash. Address Chas. A. Schultz, Keene, Tex.

SANITARIUM Cooking Oil. Noted for quality. Free from animal fat. Eight one-gallon cans, $6.60; 5-gallon can, $3.90; two 5-gallon cans, $7.60; 30-gallon barrel, 66 cents a gallon. Cash with order. Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.

LIBERAL OFFER.—Best cottonseed-oil for all cooking and salads. Wholesome, nutritious, fine flavor, keeps indefinitely. Guaranteed free from animal fats and all impurities: 5 gallons, $3.25; 10 gallons, $6.25; ½ barrel, $17.60. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

WANTED.—Man and his wife, both trained nurses and Adventists, to assist in small surgical hospital. The man should be capable of looking after certain business matters and the woman should have some training in operating-room methods. Send references. Drs. Mason, Evans, and Keys, Murray, Ky.

PURCHASE your Scriptural Mottoes from Emmanuel Children’s Home (Art Dept.), Mountain Grove, Mo. Their most beautiful design in silver letters and beveled edges, “We look for the Saviour,” 35 cents, prepaid in United States. Free catalogue and circulars showing over one hundred eighty mottoes, from 5 cents to 25 cents each. Twenty-six, all different (12 x 16), $1, prepaid, including entirely new designs Father and Mother Mottoes. Eighteen Scriptural Post-cards, all different, 25 cents, prepaid. Proceeds are devoted to this self-supporting children’s home.

Northern Union Conference

By R. A. UNDERWOOD; T. D. GIBSON

THE Northern Union Conference will hold its fifth biennial session in connection with the ministerial institute to be held at College View, Nebr., January 16 to February 4. The first meeting of the conference will open January 16 at 10 A. M., for the election of officers and such other business as may properly come before the conference. All names of delegates who are selected by the local conferences should be reported to the union conference secretary, Thomas D. Gibson, 2718 Third Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn.

R. A. UNDERWOOD, President; T. D. GIBSON, Secretary.

Northern Union Conference Association

By R. A. Underwood; S. E. Jackson

The Northern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists incorporated, will hold its opening local meeting for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may be necessary, at College View, Nebr., January 16 at 2:30 P. M. The delegates of the Northern Union Conference which meet at College View at this time are the constituency of the corporation.

R. A. UNDERWOOD, President; S. E. JACKSON, Secretary.

Nebraska Conference

By J. W. Christian; Pearl E. Jones

THE next annual session of the Nebraska Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held, just prior to the Central Union Conference, at College View, Nebr., Jan. 11-15, 1912, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference. The first meeting will be held Thursday evening, January 11, at 7:30 o'clock, in the College View Seventh-day Adventist church.

J. W. CHRISTIAN, President; PEARL E. JONES, Secretary.

Nebraska Conference Association

By J. W. Christian; Anna M. Peterson

The regular annual session of the constituency of the Nebraska Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists will be held at College View, Nebr., Jan. 11-15, 1912, in connection with the annual Adventist conference, for the election of trustees, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. The first meeting will be held Friday, January 12, at 10:30 A. M., in the Seventh-day Adventist church at College View.

J. W. Christian, President; Anna M. Peterson, Secretary.

Change of Address

THE address of Elder M. W. Lewis is 1716 First Ave. North, Fort Dodge, Iowa, instead of 717 Foster St., Burlington, Iowa.

Publications Wanted

THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications sent postpaid:—

C. L. Burlingame, Northport, Nebr., desires any of our denominational papers to use in missionary work.

Mrs. Lizzie Symons, Sterling, Mich., R. F. D. 1, desires copies of the Watchman, Life Boat, Signs of the Times, and tracts for free distribution.

Atlantic Union Conference

By W. B. WHITE; PEARL L. REES

The next biennial session of the Atlantic Union Conference will convene in the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., in Tollner Hall, corner of Bedford and Putnam Avenues, Monday, Jan. 8, 1912, closing Sunday evening, January 21. At this time officers will be elected for the coming biennial term, and all necessary business transacted.

The first session of the conference will be held at 4 P. M. Monday, January 8. At this time the conference will be organized, and the standing committees appointed. Each conference in the Atlantic Union is entitled to one delegate without regard to numbers, and one additional delegate for every one hundred fifty members.

W. B. WHITE, President; PEARL L. REES, Secretary.

From Troubled China

IN these days we know that our people are watching for news from our workers in China. From Chang-sha, the capital of Hunan, comes a letter, dated November 2, from Elder R. F. Cottrell, superintendent of our South Central China Mission, which he intended as a week of prayer greeting. He writes:—

Greetings to our brethren in America. Though in the midst of revolution and unrest, we are neither dismayed nor discouraged. The consul has ordered all foreigners to remain out of the city, and all women with children to leave the vicinity. We were never more glad for a little refuge away from the storm-center. When the trouble began, we were just moving into our new houses that the $300,000 Fund enabled us to erect. Not only have these homes been a great blessing to us, but we have been sharing them with foreigners of three other missions who have been driven out of the city.

“Our annual meeting was set for October 4, and despite the unrest, about one hundred have been in attendance. During the past summer our work has found foothold in three new places, and a fourth is calling loudly for the living preacher. With famine and revolution, some of our people are having a hard time. Next Sabbath we expect to have a baptismal service for over twenty.

Brother and Sister O. J. Gibson, Brother and Sister Chandler Harris, and Mrs. Cottrell and I are well. We plan to stand by our post as long as the consular authorities will permit, and sincerely trust that it will not be necessary to leave. We know our Leader will direct matters just right.

Writing from Shanghai, November 8, Dr. A. C. Selmon, acting superintendent of the China Union Mission, says:—

A telegram received last night reports that our workers in Honan, with the exception of F. A. Allum, have fled by way of Peking and Tientsin, and will soon arrive in Shanghai. I have had no definite word from Chang-sha, but from reports received to-day, it is very probable that our brethren there are already on their way to Shanghai. All our workers were compelled to flee from Hankow some time ago. So far our only property loss has been the burning of our chapel at Hankow, with all of our literature stored there and a large amount of chapel furniture and dispensary supplies. We are grateful that in these troublous times the lives of all our workers thus far have been spared.

Concerning South China, Dr. Selmon writes in the same communication:—

Word from the south just received is to the effect that S. A. Nagel and his wife and Mrs. J. P. Anderson have left Wai Chau and are now in Canton. Canton passed into the hands of the revolution peaceably, but conditions there are very critical, and it may be that the workers will have to leave.

Publishing Work in America and Britain

S. N. CURTISS, manager of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, left Washington recently for Mountain View, Cal., where, together with R. Hook, Jr., manager of the Southern Publishing Association, and C. H. Jones, manager of the Pacific Press Association, detail study will be given to the adoption of a uniform system of estimating costs and keeping accounts in the three publishing houses.

DR. A. B. OLSEN, writing from Caterham, England, in speaking of the work being done in the circulation of our publications in Great Britain, says: “Our Christmas Good Health is going very well indeed. We shall certainly circulate at least 75,000 copies. This year we are making a big pull with Present Truth, and we hope to sell 100,000 copies or more of that paper.”

Winter in Alaska

THE master of our Alaskan Mission cruiser, “Searchlight,” Brother Fred W. Temple, who attended the North Pacific Union Conference last October, reports again from Alaska, in winter quarters: “It is dark here at 3 P. M., and the sun does not appear until after 8 A. M.”

Institutional Surpluses for Missions

WHAT a glorious day it will be when all our institutions, like the St. Helena Sanitarium, can show every year a surplus of earnings above expenses to donate for the extension of the work in the great mission fields! All, we believe, should earnestly labor with this object in view.

The German Work in the East

ELDER J. H. SCHILLING, of the North American Foreign Department, and superintendent of the German work east of the Mississippi, has located in Brooklyn, N. Y. He finds an encouraging outlook in the German work in the East. “I am sure it will prosper,” he writes, “just the same as in the old country.”

A Loss in India

While at this season we are making the annual offering to missions,—a precious and sacred gift of dedicated means,—some are called in unhealthful climes to give yet more precious gifts than silver or gold. Writing from India, of the sudden death of his little boy, from malaria, which evidently was lurking in the shade of the mango-trees surrounding the only available house they could find, Elder George F. Enoch says:—

We can not understand it. However, we bow the knee to Him who is above all, and pledge our lives anew to his service. Were it not for the “blessed hope” we would not know what to do; but in its light we renewed our consecration to Jesus for the hastening of the glad reunion day. Our hearts are now bound more firmly to India, and our only desire is to labor and toil here until our work is done.

The Unentered Fields of Brazil

FROM the eastern coast of the great South American continent, comes this message from Brother F. W. Spies:—

The few workers in Brazil feel that they are facing an immense problem. In the already-entered fields there is more work than the workers can do. But the message is stretching out beyond into new fields. In a recent letter from Elder John Lipke, superintendent of the East Brazil Mission, he says: “There are now three members in Parahyba, and others are keeping the Sabbath there, and desire to be baptized.” This means that the Sabbath truth has gained a foothold in a new state, and that the message is pushing its way on farther north toward the Amazon region. But Parahyba is a part of the North Brazil Mission. Elder Lipke has fully as much to do as two men can handle, but as there is no minister in all the North Brazil Mission, a field composed of ten states and over half of Brazil’s territory, and as I could not go to Parahyba, we asked Elder Lipke to visit these interested souls. Is it any wonder that we are often perplexed, not knowing which way to turn? And is it any wonder that at times years pass and souls who have made a start in obeying the message wait and pray and wonder if the day will dawn when a minister will come to help them? My dear brother, my dear sister, as you read this and similar appeals from our many fields, pray, pray with us that the Lord of the harvest may soon send forth more reapers.

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